Du Fu's fame spread all over the world, and his poems were passed down through the ages, but he was quite frustrated in the officialdom at that time. When Du Fu was in his fifties, he was recommended by Yanwu, a good friend and ambassador of Jiannan Province, and was awarded the position of "Yuan Wailang and Inspection Department" by the court. Subsequently, Du Fu left the Chengdu Caotang where he lived with his family, drifted around the rivers and lakes, and finally died.
So, what is Du Fu's status as the "foreign minister of the school"? What is the official residence? The official classic of the Tang Dynasty, The Six Classics of Datang, has a detailed explanation.
According to the "Shang Gong Shu Bu" in the Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty, there is one Shangshu, one assistant and one assistant in the palace. Shangshu is also an assistant minister, "in charge of all the laws and regulations in the world, reclaiming farmland and reclaiming wasteland." Its subordinate officials are the Ministry of Industry's Langzhong, from the fifth grade, the Ministry of Industry's foreign minister, and from the sixth grade. "The plan of taking charge of the city's civil servants is the second minister and assistant minister." The so-called "proofreading" refers to obtaining official titles and not doing specific things in the court. It can be seen that "Yuan Wailang, the Department of Inspection and Correction" is an idle official position from the perspective of Grade 6.
Official career officials in Tang Dynasty can be divided into inflow type and outflow type. There are officials in the stream, each with its own pros and cons, from the next four to the next, with a total of * * * 30. In the Tang Dynasty, the annual salary of Liu Pin officials was 90 Mi Lu stone, plus 5,300 pieces of miscellaneous copper coins per month.
As can be seen from the above data, Du Fu's "Yuan Wailang of the School Inspection Department" is only a middle and lower level official position. At the same time, the rank of the county magistrate in a medium-sized county is seven, and he is only two levels higher than the county magistrate. Du Fu's position, to paraphrase his current rank, is probably equivalent to the deputy department-level researcher of a Ministry in the State Council, a state organ; In the local government, it is roughly equivalent to the non-leadership position of the deputy department level in prefecture-level cities.